The reign of the headwind of his Majesty share against online pornography. However, filters, first put in place a couple of weeks ago is subject to controversy: is questioned its effectiveness.
Last July, David Cameron has ordered access providers to fight online pornography and I wanted to install the default parental control within the next year to protect the Cherubim "hardcore pornography but legal. A few months later, under this leadership, Google announced they developed an algorithm to block certain queries that lead to child pornography content. In Britain, this is translated by installing this filter by major Internet access providers: TalkTalk, O2 and sky then BT 16 December that launched a new filter should block all pornographic sites for its users. This measure, similar to a parental control is applied by default to all new subscribers and should be generalized as soon as 2014. Virgin before their snap pitch that year.
Everything has to be perfect in the best of all worlds ... Yes, but it's not. These different filters are effective not announced, creating real colini, or later a bit overzealous, causing some grotesque situations.
So, 10 days after its launch, the BT and TalkTalk would spend some well known British porn sites according to the BBC. On the contrary, this default «parental control» would be intransigent towards ... sex education sites. More controversy, the BBC says that sites help to women victims of domestic violence (BT) but also helps victims of rape (TalkTalk) and platforms to help people suffering from addiction to pornography (sky) are blocked by these filters, such as the websites of LGBTQ organization or right of women. You can go further and gain access to these sites asking his ISP doesn't filter the connection.
The solutions are also online, including an extension for Google Chrome, "go away Cameron's ...
The British Council for the protection of children on the Internet decided to take up the problem by opening a workgroup. At the time, to the reluctance of some are seeing a possible drift, David Cameron had sworn
If you have used [request] is that you are looking for images of child abuse online
Caustic when we know that these filters also block access to sites the Government and Parliament, as well as Claire Perry, a member of Parliament who have campaigned for these filters ... As explained in Slate, Forbes would be due just to the fact that Claire Perry is pro-filtering, "its very site used the words ' porn ', ' sex ' and others and so it considered pornographic.
Some see the hand of Government and David Cameron, who has always wanted to go beyond a simple anti-porn filter by putting in place a filter against certain content, known as "reprehensible", which perhaps explains why so many sites are blocked, then they have nothing pornographic strictly speaking and then include ' violent ' sites, "with close to extremism» content, those "on anorexia and eating disorders, suicide, alcohol and cigarettes, and" web forums "! » Nice program.
Although some ISPs such as BT have already examined the description of certain blocked sites that included yet there is little
sites whose primary purpose is to provide information on topics such as respect for his sexual partner, abortion, gay and lesbian lifestyle, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy
GRS remains the real intentions of the Government and the extent of blocked sites, THEN keep this information secret.
